Who Designed Alhambra?
The architects behind Alhambra's houses, with the builders and first families named beside them, from the public record.
The record names an architect for 11 Alhambra houses, 11 of them from the 1920s, and no architect is named on more than one of them. For the city itself, its neighborhoods and its market, see the library's Alhambra page.
Who designed the houses in Alhambra?
On this record, 11 houses in Alhambra name their architect, and no architect is named on more than one of them. For 8 of them the documents name the builder too.
When were most of Alhambra's houses on record built?
The decades with the most houses here are the 1920s (11). The busiest years on record are 1927 and 1928, tied.
How do I find out who designed my house in Alhambra?
Look for your street in the table on this page; 11 Alhambra houses here name the architect, and every architect is in the register with the rest of the work credited to that name. For the year, the Los Angeles County Assessor is the first place to check; its year built is often there, though it can be approximate or missing. Who designed my house? walks through the records in order.
If your house is not here, ask me. I'm Greg Anderson of Arroyo Casa, and I walk Alhambra's streets with door hangers. When the record names the architect of an Alhambra house, I can tell you what it says, and who built it where a document says.
Every house with a named architect.
The 11 Alhambra houses whose architect a document names, in the order they were built, with the builder and the first family where the documents name them.
| House | Built | Style | Designed by | Built by | First family | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2604 Carlos St | 1922 Nov. 3 | bungalow 1922 building notice | Berger-Morlan Co. (designer and builder) | Building notice, 19221922 building notice | ||
| 2549 Montezuma St | 1924 Oct. 31 | C. W. Taylor | C. Wesley Taylor | Maude D. Aungset first owner | Building notice, 19241924 building notice | |
| 1900 S Date Ave | 1925 Aug. 7 | H. R. Setterlund | H. R. Setterlund | B. M. and Annice C. Moore first owner | Building notice, 19251925 building notice Standing | |
| 929 State St | 1925 July 31 | Edward Cray Taylor | J. C. Hassenger first owner | Building notice, 19251925 building notice | ||
| 1425 S 7th St | 1927 March 18 | R. A. McCraner (designer and builder) | R. A. McCraner | Alvin E. Rawson first owner | Building notice, 19271927 building notice Standing | |
| 505 La Paloma | 1927 Jan. 28 | R. M. Goodwin (designer and builder) | R. M. Goodwin (the owner) | R. M. Goodwin first owner | Building notice, 19271927 building notice Standing | |
| 638 San Vincente Blvd. | 1927 Feb. 18 | Robert J. Botherson | Troy and Clara McGowan first owner | Building notice, 19271927 building notice | ||
| 1506 Date Ave | 1928 May 25 | Harold J. Bissner | H. J. Bissner | H. T. Oatman first owner | Building notice, 19281928 building notice Standing | |
| 1709 W Hellman St | 1928 March 9 | Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. | Fred L. Heaton | Edward E. Hubbard first owner | Building notice, 19281928 building notice | |
| 1723 S Edgewood Dr | 1928 Nov. 30 | Donovan Hultin | Donovan Hultin | T. M. Ruo first owner | Building notice, 19281928 building notice | |
| 1724-26 Plum St | 1929 Jan. 11 | M. C. Armstrong | H. A. Armstrong Co. | Culler, Alice M. and W. H first owner | Building notice, 19291929 building notice |
Who designed Alhambra.
Berger-Morlan Co. (architect, 1), C. W. Taylor (architect, 1), Donovan Hultin (architect and builder, 1), Edward Cray Taylor (architect, 1), H. R. Setterlund (architect and builder, 1), Harold J. Bissner (architect, 1), Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. (architect, 1), M. C. Armstrong (architect, 1), R. A. McCraner (architect and builder, 1), R. M. Goodwin (architect and builder, 1) and Robert J. Botherson (architect, 1)
Where to look next.
- Harold J. Bissner and Harold J. Bissner Jr. · 1 houses in Alhambra
- The 1927 Valley House Record · 3 Alhambra houses
How this record is built.
This record is compiled by the Arroyo Casa Archive of Records from public documents: city and county historic resources surveys and inventories, National Register nominations, landmark designation reports and council records, planning documents and preservation groups' publications, plus the building notices of 1917 to 1930, printed as houses were permitted, contracted or announced. Where a house was matched to the Los Angeles County Assessor's record at the same address in the same city, the page says whether the county confirms it standing. A house is shown only when one of those documents names its architect, and the builder and the first family are shown beside the architect where a document names them. Each house carries the kind of document behind it, and a credit the document itself calls likely, probable, possible or attributed is marked attributed. The methodology and every source document are on one page.
Find who designed your house.
Every house has a birth year. Start with the owner's guide: how to find who designed and built your house, who lived in it first, and what this record already holds.
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